A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of
Valentine's Day - hearts, cupids, arrows, love, or what have you?
This real photo postcard features a snow sculpture of Cupid standing next to a heart with an arrow through it. A building is in the background, and two cars are parked along the street in front of the building. Two women are walking near one of the trees on the left.
The card is addressed on the other side to Edith Towey, 1744 Summerfield St., Brooklyn 27, N.Y., and it was postmarked in Poultney, Vermont, on February 13, 1948. The location of the snow sculpture is listed on the verso as "Green Mountain Junior College, Poultney, VT," and a handwritten "Valentine's Greetings" appears above the name of a studio, "H. B. Rood Photo, Poultney, VT."
According to a
brief biography by the Poultney Historical Society,
Harry B. Rood (1871-1960) lived in Poultney his entire life. He began working in his father's photography studio in the 1890s and continued as a photographer after his father's death.
At the time Rood took this photo,
Green Mountain Junior College was a two-year college for women and then became a four-year college for both men and women in 1974, when its name changed to Green Mountain College.
Ames Hall, the campus building that appears in the photo, is still standing, but the college itself closed in 2019 after experiencing financial difficulties.
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Deborah Lundbech said:
Actually, my mother-in-law was a house mother at Green Mountain College for several years and my husband-to-be and I went to a post College graduation there in the late 70s, along with Brian's brother and his girlfriend.
I remember an unofficial gathering in a nearby field where girls from the dorm gave my mother -in-law an award - also an award to another girl in the dorm (forget what it was) with my mother -in-law commenting, "Sometimes girls can be so mean."
I thought it was still an all girls school then - but perhaps there were just no enrolled boys at that time.
Before it closed it had a focus on environmental education. We were sad to see it close.